Alex Lightman

Co-Founder, CEO,
President and Chairman of Charmed Technology

Bio:

As co-founder and CEO of Charmed Technology, Alex Lightman's
responsibilities include managing day-to-day operations and developing
and implementing the company's overall strategy including the
development of strategic partnerships and funding. He is also a producer
of the company's Brave New Unwired World wireless technology fashion
show taking place at Internet World trade shows across the globe.

A pioneer in Internet entertainment, Lightman has produced over 50
Internet-related projects for a variety of clients including Paramount
Pictures, CNN, C/Net, CKS, Jim Henson, Sony/Columbia/TriStar, Silicon
Graphics, Universal Studios and New Line Cinemas. Lightman also produced
the first Internet VR (VRML/Java) hybrid for movies such as Star Trek:
First Contact and television shows such as Xena: Warrior Princess.

Lightman previously was a marketing manager for Reuters and for
IntelliCorp, the first public artificial intelligence software company.
He also worked for Paul E. Tsongas, the Democratic Senator of
Massachusetts and former presidential candidate, where he handled
technology industry issues on Capitol Hill.

Lightman created an accredited high school and college in Santa Fe, New
Mexico, which focused on teaching global business to students from 15
countries and involved three months of study travel to different
countries.

In addition to overseeing operations at Charmed Technology, Lightman is
or has been contributing editor to Red Herring magazine, Internet World
and IntellectualCapital.com. Lightman was a keynote speaker at Internet
World 2000 shows in Singapore, Sydney and New Dehli. Lightman is
currently writing Brave New Unwired World a book about wireless
broadband for John Wiley to be published in 2001. He is a Senior
Associate of the Foresight Institute and sits on the boards of three
non-profit space-related organizations.

In it's 20th anniversary issue Chief Executive magazine recognized
Lightman as one of ten "CEO's of the Future." In addition, Animation
magazine has crowned him a "cyberguru."

Lightman is 1983 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) and attended graduate school at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School
of Government.

Bio:

Hiroshi Ishii's research focuses upon the design of seamless
interfaces between humans, digital information, and the physical
environment. Hiroshi Ishii is a tenured Associate Professor of Media
Arts and Sciences, at the MIT Media Lab. He joined the MIT Media
Laboratory in October 1995, and founded the Tangible Media Group to
pursue a new vision of Human Computer Interaction (HCI): "Tangible
Bits." His team seeks to change the "painted bits" of GUIs to "tangible
bits" by giving physical form to digital information and computation.

Ishii and his students have presented their vision of "Tangible Bits" at
a variety of academic, industrial design, and media art venues including
ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGGRAPH, Industrial Design Society of America, and Ars
Electronica, emphasizing that the development of tangible interfaces
requires the rigor of both scientific and artistic review. A display of
many of the group's projects took place in "Tangible Bits" exhibition at
the NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC) in Tokyo in summer 2000. A new,
two-year-long exhibition "Get in Touch" that features the Tangible Media
group's work opened at Ars Electronica Center (Linz, Austria) in
September 2001.

Since July 2002, he has co-directed the Thing That Think Consortium at
the MIT Media Lab.

Prior to MIT, from 1988-1994, he led a CSCW research group at the NTT
Human Interface Laboratories, where his team invented TeamWorkStation
and ClearBoard. In 1986 and 1987, he was a visiting research associate
at GMD (The German National Research Centre for Computer Science) in
Bonn, Germany. In 1993 and 1994, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor
at the Computer Systems Research Institute of the University of Toronto,
Canada.

He served as an Associate Editor of ACM TOCHI (Transactions on Computer
Human Interactions) and ACM TOIS (Transactions on Office Information
Systems). He also serves as a program committee member of many
international conferences including ACM CHI, CSCW, UIST, SIGGRAPH,
Multimedia, Interact, ISMAR, and ECSCW. He received B. E. degree in
electronic engineering, M. E. and Ph. D. degrees in computer engineering
from Hokkaido University, Japan, in 1978, 1980 and 1992, respectively.
He was born in Tokyo in 1956, and started to play with PDA (Personal
Digital Assistant) in 1958.

Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief of
the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Senior Staff Engineer at Disney Online
Adjunct Faculty Member at Woodbury University
Former Bell Labs Researcher

Bio:

Newton Lee is the founding editor and editor-in-chief of the
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Computers in Entertainment
magazine, a senior staff engineer at Disney Online, an adjunct faculty
member at Woodbury University, and a former Bell Labs researcher. Lee
founded the Disney Online Technology Forums and has developed over 100
games and activities since 1996 on award-winning web sites Disney.com
and Disney's Blast, as well as enhanced-TV programs for ABC's "Summer
Jam Concert" and Disney Channel's "In Concert."

In 1993, Lee developed an object-oriented scripting language and
cross-platform compiler for interactive CD-ROMs including the beloved
titles "The Lion King Animated Storybook," "Winnie the Pooh and the
Honey Tree," "101 Dalmatians," "Lamp Chop Loves Music," "If You Give a
Mouse a Cookie," "Haunted House," "George Shrinks," and "Barbie as
Rapunzel." He and his colleagues received the Michigan's Leading Edge
Technologies Award for their invention.

Lee has served as a juror for the 2003 Emmy Awards for Advanced Media
Technology. He has won two community development awards from the
California Junior Chamber of Commerce, and four Disney VoluntEARS
project leader awards. He has published two novels, a book chapter in
"Machine Learning and Uncertain Reasoning" (Academic Press 1990), and
dozens of research papers on software applications in medical science,
national security, quality control, telecommunication, library science,
and new media. He has refereed for the International Journal of
Man-Machine Studies, IEEE Expert, and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man,
and Cybernetics. He has given invited talks at M.I.T., AT&T, the MITRE
Corp., and international conferences.

Lee holds a B.S. and M.S. in computer science from Virginia Tech, an
electrical engineering degree and honorary doctorate from Vincennes
University. He currently serves on the Strategic Advisory Council at the
Virginia Tech Computer Science Department, the technology committee of
the Boys and Girls Club of Burbank, the Multimedia/Web Design Advisory
Board of the Art Institute of California, the IMSC Board of Councilors
at the University of Southern California, and the WINMEC Media,
Entertainment, Sport, and Games Advisory Board at UCLA.

Gino Yu

Director of Digital Entertainment and Game Development
Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Bio:

Dr. Gino Yu received his BS and PhD at the University of California at
Berkeley in 1987 and 1993 respectively. After receiving his PhD, he
taught at the University of Southern California and established the
Multimedia Research Laboratory. He taught at the Hong Kong Universityof Science and Technology where he helped to establish the Center
for Enhanced Learning Technologies. He is currently Director of Digital
Entertainment and Game Development at the Hong Kong Polytechnic
University where he founded the Multimedia Innovation Centre (http://mic.polyu.edu.hk).